NEW DELHI: India has recorded a significant decline in infant deaths over the past decade, with the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) falling to 24 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. Yet behind the national progress lies a sharply uneven picture, with some states approaching developed-world child survival standards while others continue to struggle with…
Participants engrossed in mending broken ceramic bowls during DT Life.Styled Club’s Kintsugi workshop As the heatwave raged across NCR, Delhiites found refuge in the healing process of Japanese Kintsugi at Delhi Times Life.Styled Club’s Kintsugi workshop in partnership with Small World last weekend. Rooted in finding beauty in imperfections, the ancient practice fixes broken ceramics…
Blaze erupts at ministry building near ITO (Picture credits: ANI) NEW DELHI: A fire broke out on the second floor of the Ministry of Education office situated within the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) campus in Delhi’s ITO area on Monday, officials said.No casualties have been reported so far.According to the Delhi Fire Service,…
Parvati (L); her daughter, Neelam (R) NEW DELHI: For hundreds of outstation students, Parvati’s mess was a sanctuary. It was where medical and engineering aspirants celebrated birthdays, debated test scores over chai, and were sure to find a comforting meal day or night.“Aunty never said no, however late we went to grab a bite,” a…
NEW DELHI: Saturday night began as a celebration for Kapil and Nalin Rai. It ended with their deaths in the Saket building collapse.The two had gathered with friends to celebrate. Kapil had just aced an interview and was on the cusp of securing a dream position at the prestigious Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). To…
New Delhi: Saturday night began as a celebration for Kapil and Nalin Rai. It ended with their deaths in the Saket building collapse.The two had gathered with friends to celebrate. Kapil had just aced an interview and was on the cusp of securing a dream position at the prestigious Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). To…
New Delhi: Ravi Prakash Verma (25), who had studied to become a doctor, was counting the days before a long-awaited reunion. After ten months apart, he would finally see his father.Ravi had completed his MBBS in Kyrgyzstan, He spent two years in Delhi tirelessly preparing for the June 28 Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE).Back in…
NEW DELHI: Six people were killed and at least 10 wounded but rescued from the rubble of a multi-storey commercial building that “pancake-collapsed” in the densely populated Saidulajab in south Delhi Saturday evening. The upper floors of the five-storey building crashed onto the lower ones, causing massive slabs of concrete to land on a neighbouring…
New Delhi: The building collapse has left at least 10 students injured — young aspirants who came to Delhi chasing dreams of a better future, but are now left with deep mental scars and psychological trauma apart from physical wounds.Vishal, a 24-year-old BTech graduate hailing from Bihar’s Jehanabad district, moved to the capital to prepare…
New Delhi: The building collapse has brought to the fore the systemic danger of unchecked and unauthorised construction of multi-storey structures in dense residential pockets of Delhi.A TOI spot check found several five-to-six-storey structures — crammed with creative co-working spaces, commercial studios and student rentals — standing cheek by jowl in the narrow lanes of…
